Goathaunt Bunkhouse Explained

Goathaunt Bunkhouse
Coordinates:48.9608°N -113.8981°W
Built:1930
Architect:Glacier Park Hotel Co., George Baker
Added:January 19, 1996
Mpsub:Glacier National Park MPS
Refnum:95001568

The Goathaunt Bunkhouse was built as a service structure by the Glacier Park Hotel Company for the development of the Goathaunt site in Glacier National Park. This was part of the Great Northern Railway's broader development of the park as a tourist destination. The bunkhouse is the last surviving structure of this era at this location, near the southern end of Waterton Lake. Its design has been attributed to National Park Service landscape architect Thomas Chalmers Vint.[1]

The site is at the southern end of Waterton Lake, near the modern Goat Haunt Ranger Station. It was built to house the crew of the M.V. International, a small passenger launch that plied the route between the American and Canadian ends of Waterton Lake.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Goathaunt Bunkhouse. 2008-11-12. List of Classified Structures. National Park Service. 2008-11-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20110521173517/http://www.hscl.cr.nps.gov/insidenps/report.asp?STATE=MT&PARK=GLAC&STRUCTURE=&SORT=&RECORDNO=348. 2011-05-21. dead.
  2. Book: [{{NRHP url|id=95001568}} National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Goathaunt Bunkhouse]. pdf. June 1995 . Ann Hubber . National Park Service.